11027-7838Iran Public Libraries Foundation1874databases19201723214314627092017270920171492Theoretical Studies about Public LibrariesFactors Affecting the Social Status of the Library Profession: A Qualitative Investigation
movahedianghasemcshabaniahmaddcuniversity of isfahan
duniversity of isfahan
1920172321491720512201527092017
Purpose:&nbsp;this research aimed at the identification of the components and factors affecting the social Prestige of the librarianship through analysis of librarian&rsquo;s perceptions about their image in the society.
Methodology: This research is a case study that carried out with a Qualitative Approach. 27 librarians, that already working in Zanjan province public libraries, selected by purposive sampling method and data gathered by using semi-structured interview. Data analysis and category extraction implemented by step by step coding method.
Findings:&nbsp;Factors affecting social Prestige of the library profession, classified in five main categories that Include: 1. Librarian&rsquo;s virtues, 2. image of librarianship, 3. Importance of book-reading and library in society 4. Library services, 5. organizational and occupational factors.
Originality/Value: The main contribution of the article is that all five extracted factors have origins from view and perception of other social actors about library and librarianship. This view made up of librarian&rsquo;s characteristics, income, and their services in workplace.
1539pubication, information good, economics of informationVisibility of Kermanshah Public Librariesyarishiva1920172321731980102201627092017
Purpose: public librarians' efforts and straggles usually were devoted to attract users and develop their reading ability. Active presence and use of clients depend on their awareness and knowledge about library and its services and library as a being made visible foundation. So the main purpose of this research is to survey visibility of public libraries in Kermanshah city from members' viewpoints.
Methodology: This research was done through survey method in autumn 2015. A researcher-made questionnaire has used to collect data. Reliability of questionnaire was approved by professionals. Test and re-test have been used to measure the stability of questionnaire. The correlation coefficient was 0/81. The statistical sample contained 375 members of Kermanshah city public libraries. 286 questionnaires were filled out, returned and analyzed.
Findings: users believed that Internet is the most important channel for access to information resources. The main channel to acquaintance with public libraries was by friends. Members&rsquo; main tool for identification of Library sections were bulletin boards and principal way of locating a library was by their friends&rsquo; help. Members believed that library promotion plans are so weak. Members said that the most important service of public libraries is reading rooms. Members&rsquo; had a deem awareness about library services. They said that library is a very important place but they affirmed that they had not enough information about library services and other libraries&rsquo; location.
Originality/Value: public libraries function already is based on reading room services. Promotional activities should be planned for more visibility and application. This article&rsquo;s contribution seems to be the indication of promotional designs and plans for public libraries.
1654Information Storage and RetrievalUser Interface capabilities of Saman Library Sistem of Iran Public Libraries Foundation based on Nilsson’s principles
NarmenjiMahdi1920172321992170907201627092017
Purpose: evaluation of the user interface of the management system of Iran Public Libraries Foundation (Saman) is the main aim of the paper. Saman is a newly developed web based and integrated library software that seemingly works as a library OPAC.&nbsp;
Methodology: This research is an applied study and tries to investigate the usability standards of Saman website through heuristic evaluation method based on ten key principles of Jakob Nielsen, one of the most well-known methods to evaluate the user interface of information systems. In order to heuristic evaluation, four librarians of Iran public Libraries Foundation who had the necessary experience in this regard were used as evaluator.
Findings: results indicated that the component &quot;Match between system and the real world&quot; has the highest rating (87.5%), and the component &quot;User control and freedom&quot; had the lowest (29%). Also results of the study suggest that from the perspective of evaluators almost all problems related to different components of Saman user interface are minor problems. Exceptionally, the component &quot;User control and freedom&quot;, seems to have been a fundamental problem of Saman system on the basis of the majority of the evaluators.
Originality/value: this research is valuable because of its contribution to show &ldquo;user control and freedom&rdquo; as a main problem of Saman system that should be regarded as a need for refinement.
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1334Research on Library and Information ScienceSocial Status of the Knowledge and Information Science Discipline from librarians’ viewpoints in Ahvaz City of Iran
HaidariGholamrezagkokabiMortezahKaab OmeirfaridehigShahid Chamran University of Ahwaz
hShahid Chamran University of Ahwaz
iShahid Chamran University of Ahwaz
1920172322192361103201527092017
Purpose: we aimed at the identification of the current social status of Knowledge and Information Science discipline from librarians&rsquo; viewpoint in Ahvaz city of Iran. We then analyzed that which of the main factors has the principal effect on the status.
Methodology: This research is an applied survey in which the data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire has confirmed by related KIS professionals and reliability of it have been appraised by confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha with coefficient 0/95. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics (Binominal, Mann-Whitney, and Kruscal-Wallis tests).
Findings: Findings showed that 6 factors have effective role in the social status of Knowledge and Information Science (KIS): 1- personal characteristics of professionals; 2- specialism; 3- occupational economy; 4- professional standards; 5- skill learning practice and 6- social need to the profession. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that two of them have meaningful effect: specialism and social need to the profession. Also, there were significant differences among viewpoints in terms of respondent&rsquo;s educational degree, professional background, type of the library, and occupational position. However, viewpoints have not been significantly different in terms of type of employment and field of activity.
Originality/Value: It seems the research to be worthwhile because of its endeavor to show main factors engaging in social status of KIS discipline. Also, we suggested that there is an urgent need to be care of two important factors: specialism and social need to the discipline.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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1631Bibliometrics, Sientometrics, Webometrics, InformetricsAnalysis on the Structure of KIS Scientific Words and Concepts Based on Social Network Analysis in the “Web of Science” Database (1993-1997 and 2009-2013)MostafaviIsmaelOsarehFaridehTavakkolizadeh RavariMohammad1920172322372640606201627092017
Purpose: This study aimed at the identification and analyzes of &ldquo;Knowledge and Information Science (KIS)&rdquo; scientific articles structure using co-word analysis in the &ldquo;Web of Science (WoS)&rdquo; database (1993-1997 & 2009-2013). By co-word analysis of the KIS articles, subjects and concepts of KIS were identified.
Methodology: This study has based on descriptive and functional approach and on co-word analysis, using social network analysis techniques. The study population was selected using the census sampling. Co-word analysis includes 9002 journals&rsquo; articles (1993-1997) and 16475 journals&rsquo; articles (2009-2013) in WoS database. Raver Pre-map software, UCINET, NetDraw, SPSS, and Excel were also used. Pearson and chi-square tests have used for inferential side of analysis.
Findings: Co-word analysis showed that before the severe expansion of the Web services (1993-1997), the words &ldquo;Library&rdquo; and &ldquo;Information&rdquo; had good centrality, but in the recent period (2009-2013) the words &quot;web&quot;, &quot;information&quot;, &quot;research&quot;, &quot;citation analysis&quot;, &quot;knowledge&quot;, &quot;Library&quot;, &quot;journals&quot;, and &quot;technology&quot; had high level of centrality in scientific documents.
Originality/Value: The results of study have emphasized the importance of paying more attention to new areas of studies including knowledge organization, study of science and technology, web-based resources, Internet and information technology, and technical development of libraries. The mentioned areas have direct impact on teaching, research and service provision of libraries. By the coping with new trends, the educational policy-makers and planners of KIS can develop the new areas of studies in education of the required training topics and create the new trends in academic research.
1642Bibliometrics, Sientometrics, Webometrics, InformetricsWebsites of Iranian Scientific Journals: Investingating the Structural Content and Visual Features in WebsitesajilifatemehmHajiahmadiSiminnMOHAMMADIMAHDIomUniversity of Qom
nUniversity of Qom
oUniversity of Qom
1920172322652802706201627092017
Aim: &nbsp;The aim of this study is to examine the characteristics, structure and content of the 858 websites of Scientific &ndash; Research publications in Iran.
Methodology:&nbsp; this research has been done with the evaluative and web metric approach by using a checklist developed by the researcher (94 elements).
Finding: findings show that in appearance features&nbsp; 3 elements including Use bright colors for the background&rdquo;, &ldquo; suitable font&rdquo;, and &ldquo;clarity of audiovisual materials&rdquo;; in structural features &ldquo; issue, volume and year&rdquo;, &ldquo; linking with different parts of site&rdquo;, &ldquo; post address&rdquo;, &ldquo; email address&rdquo;; and in content features 3 elements including &ldquo;repeating title in all pages &ldquo;, receiving full text of article&rdquo; and &ldquo; repeating the current profile of magazine in all pages&rdquo; are more important features. Evaluating the triple features in publications shows that structural features with 83.3% stands in first place, content features with 78.7% in the second and appearance features with 54.4% in the third place.
These findings among in sextuple fields show that the website of art and architecture publications with 82.6% stands in the first level, natural resources with 73.4% in the second, human sciences with 71.6%&nbsp; in the third and basic sciences with&nbsp; 67.1% in the last level.
Results: findings show that the web sits of studied publications need to more attention. The lack of attention, in the structural features,&nbsp; to elements including &ldquo; searching in general search engine through publication website&rdquo;, interaction with users, using their opinion in policy making were the major weakness in publication websites .Also,&nbsp; in content features the lack of attention to presenting the &ldquo; Title&rdquo;, Authors names&rdquo;, Abstract of article to the live languages in the world &ldquo; caused that the research-scientific publication can not to index in authentic databases.
300databasesCorrelation between users’ search terms with the proposed terms of the papers in the bibliographic records of EBSCO and IEEE databases SanatjooAzampRajabianHamidehpFerdowsi University of Mashad
Ferdowsi University of Mashad
1920172322812942404201327092017
Purpose: This study aims to investigate correspondence of users' queries with alternative terms of Latin databases namely IEEE and EBSCO. Databases display subjective content of their documents through natural or controlled language vocabularies in specified bibliographic fields along with other bibliographic information that are called papers alternative terms.
Methodology: We used content analysis method for implementation of this research. The statistical community includes EBSCO and IEEE databases in which the transaction logs of users have been investigated during 3 months.
Findings: The findings indicated that users' queries are correspond with free alternative terms rather than controlled alternative ones. However, the relative correspondence between users' queries and controlled alternative terms is more than free alternative ones. Also there was a meaningful difference between users queries correspondence with each kinds of alternative terms. Finally, results indicated that free alternative terms seems can be used in indexing&nbsp; and search engine thesauruses.
Originality/Value: This research seems valuable because of its concentration on the comparison of efficiency of free vocabularies vs. controlled vocabularies in search process and the need to more regard toward them in indexing processes.
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